STATE-BUILDING PROCESS IN UZBEKISTAN: MANY MILES TO GO by Gürhan Ünal

“…Lately Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s presidency following thedeath of Karimov created a more fertile ground for further democratization ofUzbekistan. Considering these developments, this study evaluates state-buildingpolicies of Uzbekistan in five topics regarding nation-building,democratization, marketization, religion and foreign affairs. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on World Politics by M. M. Lebedeva

“…The article To understand the world political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the following parameters were analyzed: 1) the impact of the pandemic on the (mega)trends of world political development globalization / de-globalization, integration/ disintegration, democratization / de-democratization, 2) the political organization of the world, which includes three primary levels: a) the principles of the Westphalian system, the main of which is the principle of sovereignty; b) the system of interstate relations; c) the political systems of individual states. …”
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Solving the Cape Town Puzzle: Class, Politics and Migration in the Informal Food Economy by Graeme Young

“…Cape Town, South Africa, is in many ways a model for this idea: following its post-apartheid democratization process, governments at the local, provincial, and national levels officially recognize the value of informality and have adopted policies to support it. …”
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Da redemocratização do Brasil através das Constituições de 1946 e 1988 by Simon Riemann Costa e Silva

“…This paper analyzes the process of re-democratization in Brazil through the Constitution of 1946 and the Constitution of 1988.Both constitutions represented a turning point from dictatorship to democracy to establish a democratic state. …”
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Legal mentality and causes of corruption in Ukraine by Dovhanych V.

“…It is established that corruption in Ukraine remains one of the key obstacles to democratization, the rule of law and economic development. …”
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Africa’s Political Questions Today by Siphamandla Zondi

“…From debates about governance and democratization to struggles over resource management and economic justice, the continent's future is shaped by forces both internal and external. …”
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‘Overcrowded with tourists’: Guest Books, Postcards, and Other Popular Forms as ‘Micro-Texts’ of Travel Writing by Alan McNee

“…The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed an expansion and democratization of travel. Yet the voices of the ‘new tourists’ from the working and lower middle classes are rarely heard, with elite accounts continuing to dominate the archive. …”
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Las coaliciones de izquierdas en Francia y España (1899-1939) by Antonio Robles Egea

“…The major objective of the mutual convergence was the formation of a model of democratic and social State…”
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Évangélisation en Algérie : débats sur la liberté de culte by Karima Dirèche

“…The phenomenon of evangelization in Algeria raises other issues related to those of democratization (the debate that has occurred since the abrupt discontinuation of the electoral process of 1992) and authoritarian abuses of presidential power.…”
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Techniques laitières domestiques et conception du monde microbien laitier en Mongolie by Sandrine Ruhlmann

“…The analysis of dairy technology allows to draw the shape of a Mongolian conception of the bacterial world of dairy products which, in the post-communist context of democratization and globalization, consists of an art of composition between different systems, notably Buddhism, shamanism, hygienic communism, and international sanitary standardization.…”
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Siyasal Gelişme Perspektifinin Bir Analizi by Fatma AKKAN GÜNGÖR

“…In terms of the evolution of political development to democratization, many topics are considered to be important in the comparative politics literature. …”
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Introduction. The formation of the Hungarian Information Society in the last ten years by Róbert Sinka

“…Hungary was an example to follow as one of the initiators of the change that ultimately resulted in the elimination of the Soviet dependence, as well as in the democratization of Eastern-Central European countries. …”
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« Screens, screens, it’s nothing but screens! » La profusion des écrans à l’Exposition Universelle de Shanghai, 2010 by Tatjana Barazon, Van Troi Tran

“…This article uses the example of visual devices at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 in order to develop a reflection on the place of screens in both the fabric of artificial environments, a phenomenon characteristic of world’s fairs since the 19th Century, and the diffraction of the visitor’s experience by the proliferation and the democratization of screens. Whereas world’s fairs appear to embody consensual grand narratives of progress, a close examination of the social life of the animated images that people their ecologies uncover an event that is also rich in openings, multiplicities and virtualities.…”
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Soudobá historie, osobní vzpomínání a politika dějin by Jan Randák

“…Personal recollection may be understood as an expression of democratization of history. Witnesses` telling, however, may lead to the schematization of stories from the past. …”
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Imagens e sons da Coreia do Sul em espaços transnacionais by Luã Ferreira Leal

“…The article focuses the relationship between state agencies, entertainment companies, and industrial conglomerates in promoting South Korea’s images as a country that combines modernity and tradition. Between the re-democratization in the late 1980s and the mandate of Park Geun-Hye, started in 2013 and finished in 2017, after the impeachment process, the country invested in positioning itself as adjusted to the conditions of globalization with projects that stimulated cultural production, tourism, and accomplishment of sports mega-events. …”
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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves speci fi c changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. …”
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Savoir et valeur. Pour une conception émancipatrice des « Éducations à » by Michel Fabre

“…Their meanings would be to support the democratization movement, and his communicational interest, which, in contemporary societies, put up technocratic management of problems mistaking politics for expertise. …”
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Crise de l’État et territoires de la crise au Mali by Hawa Coulibaly, Stéphanie Lima

“…Despite innovative decentralization, recurrent tensions, whose origins date back to colonization between local societies and the central government persist in this country though it was now the last twenty years a "good student" of democratization. The objective of this paper is to reconsider the relationship between power and territory, through the prism of successive divisions of the national territory. …”
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Tax Revolts in Yorubaland, 1925-1955 by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…Some scholars have also noted a comparative process that is currently unfolding; that it was the need to raise money that forced the hands of the colonial authority into democratization and that the despondency of the indigenous population was a major reason for the crises that enveloped Yorubaland from 1925 up to 1955. …”
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New or Old Relations? Brazil’s Technical Assistance in Mozambique during the Lula da Silva Administration by Elga Lessa De Almedia

“…The arrival of Lula da Silva as President of the Republic in 2003 allowed Brazil to re-initiate relations with African countries, which had chilled during the period immediately following re-democratization. African countries are now the main recipients of technical assistance under the international solidarity discourse and for the compensation of historic debt with these countries. …”
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